Childhood Lost

Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).

Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.

Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism

(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)

"What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless."

John Stone,

UK media editor, Age of Autism

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"The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country."

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Monroe County, NY: More $$$ for SPED programs; pay NOW or "a whole lot" later

Apr 10, 2019, WHEC, Rochester, NY: Monroe County Legislature approves increase in funding for special ed providershttps://www.whec.com/news/monroe-county-legislature-approves-increase-in-funding-for-special-ed-providers/5312414/Parents, educators and care providers celebrated the decision by the Monroe County Legislature to increase funding for the county's preschool special education programs.
On Tuesday, the legislature unanimously approved a 15 percent increase in its reimbursement for special ed providers, its first increase in a decade."You're either going to pay now or you're going to pay a whole lot later if you delay these services for children," declared County Executive Cheryl Dinolofo, "when they're in their formative years and the earliest developments of their brains and their physical skills and their motor skills."…